New landfill to open in Oro next year

• Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/local-news/2016/10/17/new-landfill-open-oro-next-year-504018
• Monday, October 17, 2016

By Pamela Jay F. Orias

AN OFFICIAL of the Cagayan de Oro City Local Environment and Natural Resources Office (Clenro) said the new engineered sanitary landfill in Barangay Pagalungan will be opened in June next year.

Edwin Dael, Clenro head, said the new 25-hectare landfill opens will replace the Zayas landfill which will then be closed indefinitely.

“This one is going to be an engineered sanitary landfill so wala na gayud ni siyay baho, dili pareha sa Zayas mao ng manimaho kay tabunan man ug yuta pero kini dili gayud nato tabunan ug yuta,” Dael said.

Hopefully, mo minus nasad atong ilabay didto kay ato na gyud irequire ang barangays nga ireduce na gayud ilang basura and we will enforce forced segregation,” he said.

The new landfill will be closed and fenced to keep out scavengers as required by law, but Dael said the scavengers in Zayas whose lives depend on garbage will be given alternative livelihoods next year.

Dael said the City Council already approved its office budget, though a supplemental budget worth P100 million, but added they have proposed another additional budget worth P4 million for the comprehensive information and education campaign and capacity-building among barangay officials for waste segregation.

“Kung dili pa gayud mutuman sila sa ilang mandate, ang city na gyud mismo ang mo-file sa ila ug kaso,” he said.

Dael said the sanitary landfill project is mandated by provisions of Republic Act 9003 or the Solid Waste Management Act that prohibits open dump sites of garbage collected by local government units.

The city produces 560 tons of garbage everyday and only residual or excess wastes are to be dumped in the new landfill facility while the rest of the garbage will be made into fertilizer or will be recycled.